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Nextcloud conference 2019: Thomas Lohninger

Meet Thomas Thomas Lohninger is Executive Director of the digital rights NGO epicenter.works in Vienna, Austria. He is Senior Fellow of the Mozilla Foundation working on Net Neutrality in the European Union. The Center of Internet and Society of the Stanford Law School holds him...

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Nextcloud conference: Markus Feilner

Meet Markus Markus Feilner is a Linux specialist from Regensburg, Germany. His Linux roots date back to 1994, and since 1999 he has been running his own Open-Source-business as a consultant, trainer, author, presenter and host. Today, Markus is working as managing/senior editor at Heise...

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Prototype Fund: secure funding for your Open Source project!

Do you have a great idea for an open source project but no time to build it on your free time? Always wanted to build a Nextcloud app but don’t know how to get funding to get started? The Prototype Fund is calling for applications,...

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Updates on the Nextcloud app contest

Is this the first time you hear about the Nextcloud app contest? Learn more! New deadline: publish your app until September 1st We’ve noticed that many recent apps that got a certificate for publishing are not in the app store yet. Please, make sure your...

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Nextcloud Talk offering secure corporate messaging for SCM LIMITED

JSC System Capital Management Ltd or SCM (wikipedia) is a holding company that manages tens of billions in industrial holdings and production assets that are SCM Holdings’ investee companies. When looking for a simple, secure and well designed messenger platform that could be hosted on-premises,...

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EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

As covered today in the German, French and international media, EU Governments are starting to take digital sovereignty more and more serious, moving away from cloud solutions from large, centralized, foreign firms. Responding to escalating trade tensions including the recent dispute over a digital tax...

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Nextcloud 17 Beta 2 is out!

After testing beta 1 many issues have been fixed and improvements were made. Today we put the second beta of Nextcloud 17 online! For this beta we aim to continue testing stability and have apps in the appstore compatible with Nextcloud 17. We want to...

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Nextcloud Contributor week

The Nextcloud mission and principles

Nextcloud is more than 3 years old. For the founding team, including myself, it was very important to create a company and open source project that has some principles, some moral standard and goals. This should not be just another company which only exists to...

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German data protection organization: use of Office 365 in schools is illegal

The data protection officer of the German federal state of Hessen has warned that the cloud-based Office 365 solution is not a compliant solution for use in schools when student information is being stored on it. This fits with earlier, similar conclusions by the Swedish...

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